Salisbury



May 26, 1931.

J. SALISBURY 1,806,826

BUTTON LOOP Filed Jan. 25, 1930 JEEELIIZ EAQEBLJFRy b ATTy Patented May 26,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JESSUP SALISBURY, 0F HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT BUTTON Loor Application filed January 25, 1930, Serial No. 423,437.

. an incomplete resilient wire button loo-p with a pivotally inserted link to complete the loop; and to provide a button loop, having an inserted link in one side-arm, with a fixed member upon the other side-arm as the counterpart of the link to preserve the symmetry of the loop.

The invention consists in the novel constructions, to be hereinafter described and claimed, for carrying out the abovestated objects and such other objects as may hereinafter appear.

The invention may becharacterized by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the several figures in the accompanying drawings in which the Figure 1 a front elevation of the improved button loop; and'the Figure" 2 is a side elevation thereof.

While the invention is not limited to any specific form of construction and the details a of the device may be varied to produce the novel features hereinafter claimed, the device as illustrated is a button loop compris-' ing the suspension loop 1 providing the bar 2 around which may be looped a-strap upon which the device is intended to depend, the button-receiving loop 3 and the buttonrretaining loop 4. The button loop is prefer. ably formed of a piece of resilient wire of which an intermediate portion is bent to form the suspension loop 1, the remaining end portions of the wire depending from the suspension loop 1 to provide the wire side-arms 5 and 6 cooperating to form the button-reportion 7 at which both arms are coiled or looped, as at 8 and 9, before continuing to form the side portions of the button-retaining loop 4-, one of the arms having a coiled or looped extremity, as at 10, the extremity of the other arm, if extended beyond the loop 9, being relatively free, as at 11. A link 12,

preferably made of sheet metal, is pivotally connected at one end with the throat loop, as at 9, and at the other end with the extremity loop, as at 10, to normally overlie the relatively free arm extremity. A fixed member 13, the counterpart of the link 12, is secured at one end to the throat loop, as at 8, and at the other end to the extremity loop, as at 10, to permanently overlie that sidearm of the retaining loop 4 and to balance the link 12 to preserve the symmetry of the button loop, as illustrated by the Figure 1. The link 12 may be inserted between spaced extremities of an incomplete button loop in any other manner or in any other relative position to the button loop wherever the spaced extremities may be made to leave an open space therefor.

erated at both pivotal extremities as the throat expands to permit the passage of the shank 1 L therethrough and into the retaining loop 4, the resiliency of the arms 5 and 6 restoring the condition of the normally closed throat and other portions of the button loop. 7 r

I claim: 7

1. An expansible button loop comprising a suspension loop having depending therefrom resilient wire arms bent to provide associated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally closed throat, each arm being looped at the throat and one arm having a looped extremity, and a link inserted between and pivotally connecting the extremity loop of one arm and the loop ceiving loop 3 having the contracted throat" of the other arm for pivotal movement only in the plane of the .loops to complete the button loop.

2. A11 expansible button loop comprising a suspension loop having depending therefrom resilient Wire arms bent to provide associated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normally closed throat, each arm being looped at the throat and one arm having a looped extremity; a. sheet metal link inserted between and pivotally connecting the extremity loop of one arm and the loop of the other arm for pivotal movement only in the plane of the loops to complete the button loop; and a sheet metal member, the counterpart of the link, fixed. to the throat and extremity loops of the same arm.

J ESSUP SALISBURY. 

